The aging roof of the kitchen in Bessbrook Meeting House recently collapsed, taking out not only the kitchen but also the access to the ladies’ toilet. Below is a story from Fiona Devlin (Cork Meeting) about how a Gofundme campaign set up to help raise the £12,000 needed to repair the roof has made connections across the Quaker world. You can make a donation of any size to this campaign using the following link:
Fiona’s story:
Friends in Wilmington Carolina picked up a Gofundme request posted by Sam in Bessbrook Northern Ireland.
” Donate to roof collapse Quaker meeting house Bessbrook .. ”
Someone in Wilmington Carolina meeting sent it to an Irish/ American friend of mine currently working in Thailand. Her husband, now sadly deceased, had been a member of Wilmington Meeting. Unsure if it was valid she sent it to me in Cork. So a friend of mine in Belfast Meeting confirmed it and within a couple of hours the donation was made, from Thailand, towards the Quaker Meeting House in Bessbrook.
I love this story of goodwill and hope that Sam will hear how far his Gofundme post has travelled. I wish him and Bessbrook meeting fund well.
In friendship. Fiona Devlin, Cork meeting.
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